Jupiter VS Aerodrome Finance! Which is better DEX token JUP on Solana or AERO on Base?

Just because I am invested in Aero doesn't mean I will say it's the best thing in crypto space. It has its own weakness especially with inflation. Yes, Jupiter has huge edge being on Solana ecosystem as it is already eastablished ecosystem. Also, features like DCA, leveraging, limit order, and overall interface is great. Also, it is aggregator of other Dexes in Solana. However, tokens remaining constant, it fell over 67% from its All time high when it was at cycle low.

If I talk about Aero, price action has been trash if I have to be honest. But I feel everything was plummeting then. Jupiter, Pancake, Uni all of them. It is just that Aero got hit harder due to inflation (which is going to be insignificant around November). While market had strength, it grew from 9 cents to 2.36 dollars despite all inflation. It's just that market crash made Aero more vulnerable being new, inflationary, and emission tokens leading up to 80% crash from All time high. But as market gains strength, I feel Aero will do great. We are at week 46 and inflation will continue until 67th week (mid November). After that, inflation on Aero will be minimum or say negligible.

Technically, Jupiter is far better than Aero. But in crypto market I feel narrative or hype is equally important. Base is next hyped chain after Solana as it is backed by Coinbase. I feel for a utility token to succeed 4 thins are important: fundamentals, narratives, smart money, and backers.
Aero is strong in all the 4 aspects.

A. In terms of fundaments
1) It is main dex and central liquidity hub of base
2) Highest TVL in Base chain.
3) Increased volume and constantly breaking Uniswap metrics in Base ecosystem.
4) Good rewards and fees to attract Lps.
5) Onboarding new projects everyday.
6) Inflation will be insignifacnt soon as we progress further in the cycle.

B. Narratives
Base and Solana is hot narrative of the cycle. Aero and Brett ha been proxy play for Base for the most of people. Utilitywise, Aero is becoming favorite.

C. SmartMoney

1) It has made into Greyscale’s top 20 list of good potential tokens of this Q3.
2) Coinbase Ventures has market-acquired $AERO tokens, Nansen on X uncovered the Coinbase Venture Address that made the purchase. And guess what? They've continued buying. In total, they've purchased at least 4.7m + $AERO ($2.7m).
3) In the month of June only (so called worst month in terms of price action), holder accounts grew from 70k to 108k.
4) It is top altcoin holdings of every major veteran crypto influencers like Lark Davis, Brian Jung, Crypto bud, and many more. I know It is not good to buy coin only because the influencers are buying. But if it has good utility, narratives, backers, it is always a plus to have big influencers advertising the project especially at this stage of bull market.
5) A lot of whales are buying the dip while retailers are getting scared.
6) Just today: Political Representative Mike Collins has bought up to $50K of a cryptocurrency called Aerodrome.

D. Backers
Funded by Base Ecosystem Fund. Base is made by Coinbase. Tha'ts another way of saying Coinbase has invested in it. Coinbase Venture wallet is buying dip.

I feel it is perfectly setup for this bull run despite bearish price action. But the good part of Aero is that it doesn't take much time to rise. For instance, it grew almost 50% in less than 2 days. Price action may be sluggish but it is poised to grow once BTC hits a new All time high. Again, Jupiter might be better but Aero will have its day. I believe 10 – 15 is vey possible.

NFA. DYOR.

AERO❤